Two men were sentenced this week for their roles in a scheme to defraud Medicare, Medicaid, and private health insurance companies by submitting over $522 million in fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary genetic tests that were obtained through the payment of illegal kickbacks and bribes.
Reyad Salahaldeen, 57, of Buford, Georgia, was sentenced to 151 months in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud and wire fraud.
Mohamad Mustafa, 28, of Duluth, Georgia, was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to paying healthcare kickbacks.
Court documents say that Salahaldeen controlled four laboratories, Express Diagnostics, LLC, in New Jersey; BioConfirm Laboratory USA, LLC and BioConfirm Laboratories, LLC, in Georgia; and Tox Management, LLC and Tri-State Toxicology, LLC, both in Texas.
From 2018 through August 2020, Salahaldeen and co-conspirators paid kickbacks and bribes to a network of purported “marketers” who targeted individuals covered by Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance and induced them to provide their health insurance information and DNA samples to obtain costly genetic tests designed to predict the risk of cancer, adverse drug reactions, and other conditions.
The four laboratories billed about $522 million in false and fraudulent claims, of which Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers paid approximately $84 million.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scott-mcclallen/2026/05/06/two-men-sentenced-in-522-million-medicare-fraud-scheme-involving-fake-genetic-tests-n2675634